One should not confuse "funding this project" with "funding my time spent on the project because I'm the original author" or with "funding my attempt to keep me

One should not confuse "funding this project" with "funding my time spent on the project because I'm the original author" or with "funding my attempt to keep me in the head maintainer position of this project". Part of "funding this project" is implementing structures that the effort of all its user-developers is used to the projects improvement. That may mean to add more maintainers if one doesn't have enough time. That may mean to include other users in the search for investors. That may mean to stop public engagement publicly to see who else is engaged in keeping it going. With what I read in the article it looks like this project will either die in a few months because the maintainer is drained of his energy, or if other people are really engaged as well it will be forked and all but his best clients will switch to the fork.